I am not sure if that is the correct spelling of it, but in any case I know that it is an upper level kata. I am told that some american goju styles do not teach more than 10 kata but this style does, just to clear up some people not recognizing the name. If anyone could pass me a movement listing thatd be great, Ive looked everywhere.

nice. lol. why don't you ask 'Lord Utmost' this question....or would he have to kill you?

I so eagerly clicked on the "Submissions" link....hoping for some nifty "submissions" instead got a bunch a bloody articles! In the states do you have a "false advertising" law thingy??? If so, I'm suing!!! www.deadlydojo.com .....ahem....*cough*...McDojo...*cough*!...atleast they don't *seem* to take themselves too seriously.....luckily!

Even if you have your doubts about having not been to it or competed against it, it isnt the volidaty of my school that I am asking about.

To explain myself in the respect of the kata I asked about I will go through the history of them and to explain why my school has more than 10 as most american goju ryu dojo have. Kanryo Higashionna sensei being the master of Miyagi sensei, he developed many of the traditional kata having studied Naha Te, kempo and the eventual formation of the goju ryu system. Chogun Miyagi being the next goju ryu master, combining his experience in Naha Te, Pa Kua and the southern chinese shaolin styles developed the fundamentals of goju ryu. He developed the first 2 kata for the style, which were sanchin and tensho. The next master was of course Gogen Yamaguchi, who besides incorporating ju kumite into the style as opposed to yakusoku kumite, as well as the Taikyoku Katas, which are the kata still used today to teach beginner students. The immediate successor to Yamaguchi sensei of course being Peter urban, the man who brought goju ryu to the united states. Urban sensei worked on the katas and from them made slight adjustments and started teaching Gekisai 1 and 2, Shisochin, Sanseiru, Seisan, Seipai, Kururunfa and Superinpei as well as the 2 original kata (sanchin and tensho) as USA Goju katas. Quite a few forms of the traditional schools were not included in the teachings of Urban sensei, and my master studied under Yamaguchi sensei where he learned the forms that were not taught by USA goju. That is why I was hoping there were other japanese artists here as well as the USA goju practitioners. I am still learning the art though and I may have made mistakes in this though, but for the doubtful I have been to mcdojo's. I even got a black belt at one, and all the time never felt as if I was getting much out of it. It was after I came to my master that started to learn the traditional arts and train myself and incorporate karate into my everyday life, spiritually and physically.

And I believe his names (Lord Utmost Amor El) is a religious thing. I thought that it was odd at first without meeting him, but seeing him compete and being taught by him and seeing firsthand his skills dismissed my thoughts of it.